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A Review of Amanda Wrigley and John Wyver’s Screen plays: Theatre plays on British television

By Michael P. Jensen

People working on “Screen Shakespeare” may overlook this collection of essays exploring the perks and problems of putting all sorts […]

A Review of Kimberly Anne Coles’s Bad Humor: Race and Religious Essentialism in Early Modern England

By Brooke Conti

The stakes of religious identity for early moderns were both extraordinarily high and cast in terms that can feel alien […]

A Review of Thomas Fulton’s The Book of Books

By Dan Breen

Over the last two decades, scholars of the literature and history of the Reformations in England have begun to devote […]

A Review of Women Talk Back to Shakespeare

By Thomas G. Olsen

This student-friendly volume of the new Routledge series “New Interdisciplinary Approaches to Early Modern Culture: Confluences and Contexts” seeks to […]

Review of Jacqueline Vanhoutte’s Age in Love: Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Court

By Rachel Aanstad

Age in Love: Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Court (U. of Nebraska, 2019) is a well researched and beautifully written book […]

Review of Darren Freebury-Jones’s Reading Robert Greene: Recovering Shakespeare’s Rival

By Michael P. Jensen

The first part of this book (Routledge, 2022) leads to chapter 5 and the subsequent chapters look back to it, […]

Review of Shakespeare’s Auditory Worlds: Hearing and Staging Practices, Then and Now

By Sheila T. Cavanagh

Laury Magnus’s and Walter W. Cannon’s edited volume (Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 2021) demonstrates the strong value of its provenance from […]

Review of Ivan Lupić’s Subjects of Advice

By Maria Sequeira Mendes

“Not being counseled is bad, but being so is much worse,” claims a worried Ragusan merchant in a sixteenth-century comedy. […]

Review of Ann C. Christensen’s A Warning for Faire Women: Adultery and Murder in Shakespeare’s Theater.

By Savannah R. Xaver

Ann C. Christensen’s edition of A Warning for Fair Women (U. of Nebraska Press, 2021) not only offers the early […]

Review of The Image of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Spain, edited by Eduardo Olid Guerrero & Esther Fernández

By P.B. Roberts

As a student, I happened across Bichitr’s early seventeenth-century painting of the Mughal emperor Jahangir receiving a Sufi shaikh. Various […]

Review of Holly Crocker’s The Matter of Virtue: Women’s Ethical Action from Chaucer to Shakespeare

By Laura Kolb

Holly Crocker’s The Matter of Virtue (U. of Penn. Press, 2019) argues that premodern authors figured women’s virtue as a […]

Review of Still Shakespeare and the Photography of Performance by Sally Barnden.

By Michael P. Jensen

This 2020 Cambridge University Press book is so dense, closely argued, heavily theorized and documented that it would take several […]